Sunday Morning Links
Selected text for your weekend reading. - Edmund Pries points out how the right sees wasted public money and gratuitous tax slashing as tools to force cuts to programs which…
Greg Fingas
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
In the wake of Friday's loss to Calgary, there seem to be some stunningly short-sighted theories flying around. So let's point out that the game featured plenty of good news…
Burning question
Since declaring themselves enemies of Amnesty International apparently wasn't enough villainy for one week, the Harper Cons have also decided to pick a fight with an asbestos widow. Can National…
A response in kind
Shorter Toronto Star: We're *outraged* that our transparently systematic attempt to cause trouble for the NDP was met with an equally systematic refusal to play along. Update: pogge has more.
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Armine Yalnizyan discusses how inequality is no better for business than it is for society at large: Just a few months ago, two…
Musical interlude
George Acosta feat. Fisher - Beautiful
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - The Mark is the latest to point out that the NDP's success in winning over former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists should be considered…
Juxtaposition
An unnamed person with some clue about economics: Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the…
Deep thought
Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an "adversary" has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they're on the right side.
The last stand
Glen McGregor breaks a bigger story than he seems to realize, as the Harper Cons are now quite explicitly declaring their intention to take a wrecking ball to the Canadian…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Graham Thomson notes that for all the permutations and combinations that have developed among Alberta's opposition parties over the past few years,…
On targeted development
Shorter Stephen Harper: To anybody who dares question my free trade agreement with Colombia, I say this: you can't make a free market omelet without breaking a few skulls. That's…
New column day
Here, on how B.C.'s HST referendum and Wisconsin's state Senate recalls should rekindle our interest in setting up direct democratic mechanisms to hold governments accountable between elections. No followup links…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Marc Lee tears into the "unfunded liabilities" spin on public benefits which is now making an appearance in Canada: (W)hat’s missing from this…
Still feigned indignation
At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks.…
On broken systems
Let's add one more to the list of theories as to how the other parties' pearl-clutching over interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel may actually play to the NDP's advantage -…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Sporting cats.
Juxtaposition
Stephen Harper's rule for others when it comes to interfering in the affairs of other governments: Tory provincial election rule number one: don’t become the story In other news, Harper…
Deep thought
I can think of a few appropriate introductions to a plan belatedly acknowledging the existence of a housing crisis. But proudly pointing to past programs which have evidently accomplished nothing…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Andrew Jackson describes the next phase of the global economic crisis: Now we face a new financial crisis, or at least a…